Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American students other than the Rhodes scholars few remain at Oxford for the full course of three years. Modern Oxford is frankly disappointing to many Americans, for it is changing rapidly from a quaint town to a large and noisy one. The hand of the nineteenth century fell heavily upon its heritage of beauty and atmosphere, and the twentieth is no kinder...
...endowment for athletics will therefore, be necessary. This last point is vital and inevitable, if football is to escape from the evils of overemphasis which now are manifest. So long as colleges depend upon gate receipts from football games to support their entire athletic program, this fact alone will remain a sufficient excuse for continuing the present unsatisfactory system...
...some 35,000 square miles of territory bounded by Turkey, Persia, the British protected Kingdom of Irak, and the French mandated region of Syria. The Kemalist Government of Turkey wants the territory as a matter of Pan-Islamic Nationalist policy; and Great Britain is equally determined that Mosul shall remain sufficiently dominated by Downing Street to keep open the Palestine-TransJordania-Irak route on India...
...admired the sensational rise of Mr. Jones were more interested in knowing why, when a new Chairman was being chosen, the President of the Company had been so conspicuously passed over. The Directors' official announcement contained only a curt explanation that might mean anything: "Walter C. Teagle prefers to remain President, and is the Chief Executive officer of the company...
...interest of those who wish really to "play" the game that the CRIMSON takes this stand against the overemphasis of football which has changed the game from a sport to a business, and a public utility into the bargain. The real issue is whether American colleges shall remain colleges in the older meaning of the word, or whether they shall cease to be such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics were the "side shows of academic life". Today football tends...